Welcome to Linguistics 201 – Introduction to Linguistic Theory (Section E).
Links to class handouts, extra practice, the syllabus, and scanned required readings will be linked to below. You can find copies of readings here. Check out the language example page here.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012:
Final Review Guide (with notes on solutions) Plus: Answers to syntax questions
Review Guide (with Practice) for Final
IPA Feature Chart (you’ll get a copy of this for your final exam)
Thursday, April 26. 2012:
Notes from Class on Contact Languages (esp. pidgins and creoles)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012:
Assignment 7 key (syntactic ambiguity) - If I marked “see key” on your homework, refer to the trees here.
Notes from Class on Language Contact
Thursday, April 19, 2012:
Slides from guest lecture by Andrew Weir
Final homework assignment - Due Thursday, April 26
Tuesday, April 17, 2012:
No class
Thursday, April 12, 2012:
Notes from class on language acquisition
Tuesday, April 10, 2012:
Thursday, April 5, 2012:
Syntax Notes from Class - Ambiguity, including the rest of the Cow Problem
Tuesday, April 3, 2012:
Assignment 7 - Due Tuesday, April 10
Class Notes - Includes constituency tests and the new VP rule
Thursday, March 29, 2012:
Remember: Extra Credit Homework! Worth up to 7 points
Syntax Notes from Class - VP, PP, *, and Ambiguity
Tuesday, March 27, 2012:
Assignment 6 - Due Tuesday, April 3
Sign up for my experiment (for extra credit!) here, if you haven’t already participated
Spring Break:
Extra Credit Homework! Worth up to 7 points
Thursday, March 8, 2012:
Notes from Class on Derivational Morphology
Tuesday, March 6, 2012:
Midterm
Assignment 5 - Due Tuesday, March 13 – problem 4.6.a corrected March 10
Revised Syllabus - Quiz next Tuesday, March 13
Midterm Study Materials:
Midterm Study Guide - A general guide to topics to know about for the midterm
Midterm Practice Problems - What we reviewed in study session on Friday. Similar to actual problems you may encounter. See answer key below.
Thursday March 1, 2012:
Notes from Class (Compounding and Derivation)
Tuesday February 28, 2012:
Class notes on morphophonology and morphology
Thursday February 23, 2012:
Tuesday February 21, 2012:
Assignment 4 (edited, Feb. 26) – Due Thursday, March 1
Please note the small change on Assignment 4, Q. 4 Pt. 3: Please write the morphemes and allomorphs using IPA notation BUT please write the environment for the rule using features.
Notes from class: Doing phonology problems
Thursday February 16, 2012:
Class Notes on Phonological Rules - plus, information on the Sonority Sequencing Principle
Tuesday February 14, 2012:
Assignment 3 - Due Tuesday, February 21 – See Assignment 3 Key here
Final Notes on Phonotactics (what we talked about for the first half of class)
First Notes on Phonology (what we talked about for the second half of class)
Thursday February 9, 2012:
IPA Feature Chart (revised) - Chart with feature values of IPA symbols and all their phonetic features (revised/corrected 2/8/12)
Class Discussion on Syllabification and Phonotactic Constraints - Notes from our class discussion
Extra IPA Reading Practice Passage
Tuesday February 7, 2012:
Assignment 2 - Due Tuesday, February 14
Thursday February 2, 2012:
Guide to Vowel Features - This handout summarizes place and manner of articulation features for vowels
Tuesday January 31, 2012:
Assignment 1- Due Thursday February 9 (by the start of class). Note the change! there will be no extensions: no late homeworks will be accepted.
IPA with Features - IPA symbols with partial list of the features that characterize them
IPA Feature Chart (revised) - Chart with feature values of IPA symbols and all their phonetic features (revised/corrected 2/8/12)
Guide to Consonant Features - This handout summarizes place and manner of articulation features for consonants
Phonetics and the IPA: An Overview - This handout summarizes the information we went over in class about the study of phonetics, the sound producing system, and the IPA
Thursday January 26, 2012:
IPA Chart with Symbols and Example Words - All IPA symbols you are responsible for knowing
Tuesday January 24, 2012:
Pinker Ch.1 and O’Grady Ch. 1 (see readings page here)